Chapter 439: Warship Modification Blueprints

Under Guanghui's leadership, it took nearly an hour for Qin Ge's side's aircraft carrier to secure air superiority, which took much longer than the previous contest for air superiority.

Perhaps even if the next fleet to appear is not led by the Chess Player, or perhaps securing air superiority will be more difficult. So it's also time to go all out and counterattack.

However, the main consideration now is this battle; Qin Ge wants to see the Monarch's true strength.

Perhaps also knowing Qin Ge's anticipation, the Monarch waited until Guanghui and the others had secured air superiority, then proceeded forward with the fleet.

After reaching the position where the battleship's main guns fire, he revealed his own main gun, aimed at a light cruiser ahead, and loudly shouted, "King's Disdain!"

Only three gun turrets fired simultaneously, shells streaking across the sky with bright flashes and accurately landing on that light cruiser.

That light cruiser instantly couldn't bear the load and sank directly; while everyone was still in astonishment, a barrage had already gathered around the Monarch.

These barrages were all blue, unlike Rodney's, but like an eagle spreading its wings. In an instant, they took off from before the Monarch and surged toward the enemy fleet with tremendous force.

Accompanied by a series of booming impacts, this barrage destroyed at least seven or eight of the enemy's mass-produced warships.

"Hiss..." Not far from the shipgirls, Hao and Fanji naturally also saw this scene, and couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

"You're telling me this is a fully leveled shipgirl? One shot destroys nearly ten warships?" Fanji loudly said, "Even though I'm now awakened, I couldn't do something that crazy. A single barrage can at most take out three or four warships; that's already the limit."

Hao also looked astonished, "This is truly powerful—is this the might of the research ship? Even without awakening, even just born, it already possesses such great power."

Qin Ge is also very surprised, after all, his own Rodney's level and proficiency are already very high—he is the second batch of shipgirls Qin Ge built. Moreover, due to this long period of warfare, his proficiency is now around ninety, yet it is still far short of the Monarch's displayed strength.

Although she also has barrages, those barrages inflict only limited damage on the enemy warships ahead and cannot produce an impact as powerful as the Monarch's.

Moreover, the Monarch's current naval guns are the same as Rodney's. Rodney's naval guns fire once every seventeen seconds, so the Monarch's should be about the same.

Sure enough, as Qin Ge had expected, more than ten seconds later the Monarch fired another barrage. This barrage again destroyed about ten warships, and even heavy cruisers and battleships in the Monarch's barrage showed no difference from the earlier light cruiser.

Thus, under the Monarch's strong leadership, after gaining air superiority, Qin Ge's fleet advanced like a bamboo split, and no warship could withstand a single barrage from the Monarch.

Even a powerful Siren humanoid like the Breaker would sink to the seabed after just two volleys.

However, in such a situation of advancing like a split bamboo, Qin Ge discovered a problem: the Monarch's barrage attack, like Rodney's, has a certain chance of not being activated.

But the difference is that the Monarch's barrage is equally powerful; even if no barrage appears, a single salvo can still destroy about three enemy warships.

Perhaps there is a powerful battleship in the fleet; this battle was fought extremely smoothly and quickly, and even though nearly an hour was previously spent contesting air superiority, the battle's end time is still faster than before.

After the last rigger sank, a vortex suddenly appeared before the shipgirls, just as when the first stage ended. A box then fell from the vortex onto the sea surface.

That enchanting voice suddenly appeared again, "Congratulations on passing the second stage's trial. With the help of the research shipgirls, it seems your strength has further increased. Therefore, this box contains the reward for the second stage: warship modification blueprints."

As for the third stage, it will open again in ten hours. Hehe, keep it up—please don't let us down.

After that enchanting voice faded, sea mist gradually rose again on the surface; this time the speed was slower, obviously she is letting the shipgirls withdraw from the battle position as quickly as possible.

Thus Qin Ge picked up the communicator and said to all the shipgirls, "Recover the box that fell on the sea surface, then quickly withdraw to the command ship."

"Yes, Commander."

The shipgirls quickly replied, then swiftly scooped up the box on the sea surface and withdrew to the command ship.

When all the shipgirls withdrew to the command ship, the fog on the sea surface grew thicker until visibility was lost. However, Qin Ge and the other shipgirls were already accustomed to this sight; they paid no extra attention to the sea mist, focusing all their attention on the box given by the Sirens.

This time, Belfast directly placed the box on the table and then opened it in front of Qin Ge and the others; having experienced this before, no one paid attention this time.

Inside lay five golden sheets of paper; as the crowd walked by and saw them, Hao beside them said, "Oh, this is actually a good thing."

"Do you know what this is?" Qin Ge hurriedly asked.

"I know; in fact, the modification technology has already been mastered by the Nine Major Factions, but the created modification blueprints are few, so they haven't been widely promoted. They are only given to some commanders with conspicuous battle achievements, allowing them to exchange battle merits for them."

Furthermore, the number of shipgirls that can undergo modification is small; taking your current shipgirls under your command, Qin Ge Commander, only three can be modified.

They are the destroyer Enthusiastic and Biaoqiang. As for the other shipgirls, they cannot be modified for now, or rather they have no modification method yet. Hao explained to Qin Ge.

"Oh? What benefits does modification bring?" Qin Ge asked.

"Of course there are benefits." Hao smiled, "First, the modified shipgirl's rarity will increase by one level; for example, Enthusiastic is currently a rare shipgirl, so after modification she will become an elite shipgirl."

Moreover, in aspects such as main gun damage, torpedo damage, carrier aircraft damage, and shell hit rate, there will be improvements, and after modification one will also gain a brand-new skill. Generally, the special-grade skills obtained after modification are quite powerful, so when modification is possible, one should still try to modify as much as possible.

Qin Ge nodded and asked, "Then, are there any limitations to modifying shipgirls?"

"Yes!"